Orca Reading contents of Edits and combo's objects.

Hi Sean:

> I don't find ORCA always reads the content of Edit or
Combo objects
> within dialogs.  Such as when you change your
preferences in Orca
> iteself.  If you press numpad-8 to read the current
object.  This
> reads where the flat panel cursor is.  Not the contents
of the combo
> or edit field.

Numpad-8 should read the contents displayed on the current
line in the
application, and I just verified this in the Orca
preferences dialog.
It might be that the combo box or text area are empty and
nothing is
being spoken.  If that's the case, we might need to ask our
users what
they expect in these cases.

> While I am on the topic of these two controls.  The
backspace doesn't
> read out the deleted character.  

It should!  If it doesn't, one of two things might have
happened:

1) We introduced a regression.  :-(

2) The accessible text implementation of the associated
component
introduced a regression (or was broken to begin with).

Do you have a specific component in a specific application
that shows
this bad behavior?
 
> Also I am having problems using combos.  Under windows,
you just press
> the down arrow key to open the combo.  I don't seem to
find the same
> behaviour here.  Do you have to use alt +down to open
the combo or
> does the down arrow owrk?

"Space" brings a combo box up.  From there, you
can arrow around in it.

Hope this helps,

Will


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